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LONDON (Reuters) - Milos Raonic will not be overawed by seven-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer when the men take to Center Court for Friday's semi-final, the eighth seed said after seeing off Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios. The 23-year-old Raonic powered past Kyrgios 6-7(4) 6-2 6-4 7-6(4) in Wednesday's battle of the big servers to become the first Canadian to reach Wimbledon's last four since 1908. Walking into uncharted territory, Raonic could be forgiven for fearing 17-times grand slam winner Federer, but he remained defiant at the prospect of facing the Swiss veteran.

LONDON (Reuters) - The problem with allowing a bunch of rowdy gate crashers into the party is they will repay you by re-arranging your furniture. It must feel a little bit like that for the established names at this year's Wimbledon. After loitering on the edge of the action for a few years, the likes of Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Canada's Milos Raonic are clearly fed up waiting for the older guys to go home. And as for Australian wild thing Nick Kyrgios, he just booted down the door and strutted his stuff on the dancefloor.

LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer finally blotted his copybook on Wednesday, dropping a set for the first time at this year's Wimbledon before reaching the semi-finals with an emotional victory over friend and Swiss compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka. It is the ninth Wimbledon semi-final for the 32-year-old seven-times champion, who has been in imperious form on the grass this year, winning at Halle before steaming through five rounds at the All England Club. Federer, playing his 16th tour match against his Davis Cup team mate Wawrinka, looked listless during the first set before getting into his stride to notch his 14th win over the Australian Open champion 3-6 7-6(5)

LONDON - Grigor Dimitrov broke British hearts, ending Andy Murray's reign as Wimbledon champion with a surprisingly easy 6-1, 7-6(4), 6-2 victory in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. The third seed had confidently marched into the last eight without dropping a set but his meek abdication on Wednesday left the Centre Court crowd, which included Prince William and his wife the Duchess of Cambridge, stunned into silence. The man who had sparked wild celebrations around the country a year ago when he became the first homegrown men's champion in 77 years, appeared to sleepwalk through a one-sided first set, threatened to fightback in the second and was simply outclassed in the third.

(Reuters) - The switch from clay to grass did not go according to plan for Rafa Nadal on Thursday and the Spaniard was jettisoned from the Gerry Webber Open with a 6-4 6-1 second-round defeat by maverick German Dustin Brown. A player who is almost unbeatable on clay, having won the French Open in nine of the past 10 years, proved to be more vulnerable on grass. He has now lost his last three matches on the slicker surface dating back to 2012. Instead of chalking up his 700th tour win with victory over Brown, Nadal suffered a setback in his hopes of getting some much needed grasscourt practice before he heads to Wimbledon.

PARIS (Reuters) - Factbox on Rafa Nadal who won his ninth French Open title, and record fifth in succession, after beating Serbia's Novak Djokovic 3-6 7-5 6-2 6-4 on Sunday. MAKING HIS NAME * Born in Manacor, Mallorca, June 3, 1986. * His uncle Miguel Angel Nadal had a successful career as a professional footballer, notably for Barcelona and Spain. * Naturally right-handed, Nadal became left-handed after another uncle Toni Nadal, his coach and mentor, saw it would give him a huge advantage.

PARIS - Roger Federer was knocked out in the last 16 of the French Open on Sunday, losing 6-7(5), 7-6(3,) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to 18th-seed Ernests Gulbis of Latvia, his worst result at Roland Garros since 2004. The fourth seed and 2009 champion was second best for most of the match, making an unusually high number of unforced errors on the Philippe Chatrier show court. Gulbis chased down every shot and struck the ball with real venom and fully deserved his first place in a Grand Slam quarterfinal since 2008, clinching the finest victory of his career when Federer's sent a backhand wide.

PARIS (Reuters) - Second seed Novak Djokovic takes on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, like him a losing semi-finalist at Roland Garros last year, in the pick of the menâs last 16 matches at the French Open on Sunday. Djokovic lost in five sets to eventual champion Rafa Nadal while Tsonga, seeded 13 here, went out in three to David Ferrer. Their match on the Philippe Chatrier show court follows fourth seed Roger Federerâs match against Ernests Gulbis, the 18th seed from Latvia whose opinions often make more noise than his on-court performances.